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Renewables
Battery Energy Storage, Grid Investments Surge Across Europe
A major renewable energy developer and a leading independent asset manager have joined to support a portfolio of battery energy storage systems in Poland, part of the continuing buildout of new power infrastructure across Europe.
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News and Notes
POWER Digest [July 2026]
X-energy Advances 6-GW Nuclear Partnership With UK’s Centrica. Advanced nuclear reactor developer X-energy on June 2 said it submitted an application for the UK’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA)—the
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Energy Security
Japan Funds Solar Power for Cuban Hospitals Amid Energy Crisis
With support from the Japanese government, hospitals in several Cuban provinces will have access to renewable energy solutions to help ensure the continuity of medical services during power outages. These
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Data Centers
Energizing AI: How Modular Substations Alleviate Data Center Power Bottlenecks
Data center developers have mastered server density and cooling, but power interconnection remains stubbornly slow. Modular substations built in factories rather than fields are emerging as the most practical
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Commentary
The Grid, Not Just Generation, Has Become the Central Climate Story
For much of the past decade, the climate and energy debate has been fixated on how electricity is generated: which technologies are cheapest on paper, how renewables can scale fastest, which breakthrough is
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Trends
Enhance Power Generation Reliability With Advanced Analytics and AI
Utilities and power generation companies are bolstering operational efficiency and plant reliability by implementing advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI)–driven predictive maintenance
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Hybrid Power
Cogeneration’s Advantage: Efficiency, Resilience, and the Case for Captured Heat
The average U.S. power plant wastes two-thirds of its fuel as heat, yet the technology to capture it has existed for decades—and already powers 30% or more of the grid in parts of Europe.
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Commentary
AI, Data Centers, and the New Politics of Power Demand
Artificial intelligence (AI) has overturned the long-stable trajectory of U.S. electricity demand. After decades of flat growth, planners and regulators now face a surge driven by hyperscale data
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O&M
The Future of Field Operations: A Better App Strategy for Mobile Crews
Shadow a utility work crew for a day and you would be amazed at how many obstacles, inefficiencies, and headaches they face from the mobile applications they use. These teams are productive despite those applications, not because of them.
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Nuclear
NRC Charts a Disposal Path for Nuclear Waste Stuck at a ‘Dead End’
For decades, the most radioactive category of low-level waste in the U.S. has had a disposal plan that exists only on paper: a deep geologic repository that was never built. Late last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) moved to replace that plan with one that can actually be licensed. The agency proposed a sweeping […]